Updated 6:36 pm, Tuesday, November 5, 2013

On a casual Saturday night hunt for Bigfoot (a.k.a. Sasquatch) in Rogers County, Okla., a "barking noise" spooked one hunter and he “jerked and shot his friend in the back,” authorities there told a local television station.

And that was just the beginning of the trouble for the hunters and their families and in the end three arrests were made in the incident.

The 21-year-old alleged shooter was arrested for reckless conduct with a firearm and obstruction, NewsOn6.com reported. And the victim of the shooting is expected to survive.

The alleged shooter’s father-in-law compounded the trouble when he allegedly threw the suspect’s rifle in a pond in an attempt to hide evidence. The father-in-law was a felon and wasn’t supposed to have a firearm, so the 53-year-old was charged with “felon in possession of a firearm and destruction of evidence.”

Then the shooter’s wife got into trouble when she apparently told police both hunters had been shot by someone else. She was charge with obstruction.

"The aggravating part of this whole deal is that their dishonesty wasted several man hours of not only the Rogers County Sheriff's Office, but our partners at the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office," Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton told NewsOn6.

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Omar Pineda (left), Perry Don James (center) and Lacey Pineda (right) were arrested in connection with a Bigfoot hunt that ended in an accidental shooting.

(Photos from the Rogers County Sheriff's Department)

Omar Pineda (left), Perry Don James (center) and Lacey Pineda (right) were arrested in connection with a Bigfoot hunt that ended in an accidental shooting.

(Photos from the Rogers County Sheriff's Department)

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Huge, smelly and hairy, this mythical ape-man has vexed believers who say he exists. The California filmmakers of this famous 1967 image said this was the real thing, but doubters have said the creature looked to be holding a metal thing that looked suspiciously like a beer can.

Huge, smelly and hairy, this mythical ape-man has vexed believers who say he exists. The California filmmakers of this famous 1967 image said this was the real thing, but doubters have said the creature looked

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